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Introduction to Wigner Random Matrices
Student-Run Research Seminar| Speaker: | Alexander Soshnikov, UC Davis |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, Feb 13 2002, 12:00PM |
Wigner random matrices were introduced by a Nobel Prize laureat Eugene Wigner in the early fifties in connection with nuclear physics (statistics of the highly excited states of the heavy nuclei). I will talk about some classical and more recent results and the connections to combinatorics, number theory and other areas of mathematics.